JAPAN: Kamikaze Over Tokyo

No one was particularly suspicious when Movie
Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno appeared at Tokyo's Chofu Airport last week in a
World War II kamikaze pilot's uniform, complete with white scarf and
with risingsun flags emblazoned on his right sleeve and on his
warrior's headband. As he rented a single-engine Piper Cherokee from a
local flying club, he explained that he was merely doing a publicity
turn for a new film on the 1944-45 suicide pilots.

So it seemed for a while after Maeno, 29, took off, accompanied by a
photo plane. But after half...